Jill’s Story

When Jill Davis was 20 years old and studying abroad in Paris, she took her first wine course. Even though she spent most of her time in Paris drinking 2 Euro bottles of wine, the course inspired her to one day work in the wine industry. When she graduated from Arizona State University in 2009 she started working for Studio Vino, a custom winery in Tempe. After a year of being Studio Vino’s winemaker and event manager, Jill packed up her life and moved to NYC.

Jill spent the next 7+ years working in various aspects of the wine industry including restaurants (Corkbuzz Restaurant + Wine Bar), events (NY Vintners), consulting (SYPartners) and retail (Convive Wines). During that time she attended her first natural wine festival in Brooklyn called The Big Glou. She was intrigued and amazed by the wines she tasted. Jill’s curiosity about how natural wine is made brought her to the Adelaide Hills of South Australia to spend a week during harvest with the team at Jauma. That year she also completed the WSET Level 4 Diploma in Wines and Spirits and decided to move to Australia to learn more about winemaking.

While living in Melbourne, Jill worked two harvests (Two Tonne Tasmania, Limus) while also working as a marketing and subscription manager (Magnum + Queens Wine). In 2019 she left Australia and went on to work harvest in Italy (Foradori) where she learned more about biodynamic farming and fermentation in amphora. Jill returned to the U.S. in late 2019 and spent the 2020 harvest working at Donkey + Goat in Berkeley, California.

In 2021, Jill made her first wine at End of Nowhere winery located in the Sierra Foothills of California. She now lives in Healdsburg and made her second and third vintage of Heaps Keen in Sonoma County.